Religion: Wise Unwise?

Throughout the land headlines blared
RABBI WISE SAYS JEWS SHOULD ACCEPT JESUS. As the implication of those
words sank in, Jews became excited and commenced to flay famed
Manhattan Rabbi Stephen S. Wise right and left. The Agudath Harabonim*
issued an edict against him. Rabbi Louis Ginzberg, professor of the
Talmud at the New York Jewish Theological Seminary, declared:
"Rabbi Wise does not represent the beliefs of a majority of
Jews."

At length someone troubled to discover that Rabbi Wise had
actually only...